Knitting Notes Subject Index
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Knitting techniques:
Casting-On: Provisional Cast-Ons Picking up Provisional Cast-On stitches Increases & Decreases: Two-Row SSK decrease Working Yarn-Overs Other notes: Edges & selvedges Slipped Stitches Knitting Needle Sizing Yarns: Measuring Gauge Pre-washing yarns Joining in new yarns Using multiple yarns to blend colours Straightening crinkly yarn "Seeing Double" Series – Working with doubled yarns:
Working with colour: Joining in new yarns Fibonacci Stripes Blending colours & avoiding 'jogs' in striped patterns Dyeing yarn Colours in Nature Series on Colour trends: Project Ideas:
Summer Knitting Series: Ideas for a whole summer of knitting, including activities for the little ones to join in:
How long can you wait? Do you remember chilly walks to bed followed by that lovely feeling of putting on PJ's warmed by a hot water bottle? Ah the good old times... A cushion for every season: Four cushions you can knit now, then change out as the year progresses to give you a new look for every season. So it begins: Here's an idea for your next special occasion – a knitted table runner! This one is especially beautiful with a reversible elongated diamond stitch pattern. |
Reversible Knitting Stitches:
A different kind of stitch book: An introduction to an innovation e-book with more 250 reversible stitch patterns and photos of over 80 different projects to inspire you. Either Way Up: Reversible knitting stitches have many qualities, not least of which is that they lay beautifully flat – perfect for reversible scarves. Reversible Stripes: It is hard enough to find a reversible lace stitch, but even harder to find one with such a beautiful colour transition as Roman Stripe Lace. Reversible Colours: Reversible stitches can look so different when worked in two or more colours! Here are some examples from our book with some projects examples. Let's Half-Twist again: An exploration of the stitch that I "invented" when I was 13, and a comparison with Plain Rib and Twisted Rib. Bags:
Bags of Bags: The ever-present need to deal with the problem of plastic pollution and how we knitters can provide at least one solution – to make our own bags! Market Bag Knit-Along: A step-by-step guide to working your very own bag for the next Farmers' Market: Scarves & Ties:
How long shall I make this scarf? It is never easy when you are knitting a scarf for someone else to know how long it should be, but here are some ideas to help you decide. How much yarn do I need for this scarf? Some notes on how much yarn you might need for various scarves, ranging from a slim scarf for a lady up to a chunky men's scarf. The Four-Way Wrap: A step-by-step guide to a great new method to knot your scarf, ably demonstrated by our daughter Anna. A new knot for a your tie: Introducing the Okehampton knitted tie together with a new method of knotting it to give a symmetrical knot with a neat central dimple. Some other useful size guides:
Blanket coverage: A guide to different blanket sizes, from lap-rugs and throws all the way up to Queen and King-sized blankets. [#7 in the Summer Knitting series] A rug for every room: Four rugs for your bedroom, bathroom, kitchen, sitting room and hallway – so every room in your house can have a cozy rug. And some other fun posts:
How to fill a hot water bottle: If you are not sure how to fill a hot water bottle, then check here for the method my mother taught me – and mothers are always right, eh! No time to knit him a scarf: It's Christmas Eve and unless you're the world's fastest knitter you're not going to finish the scarf in time, so here's the next best thing. Sorting the Second-Sock Syndrome: That wonderful feeling when you have finished your sock, only to realise that now you need to make another one..... |
